Quotes About Recollection

I did not understand you. I shut my eyes, and would not understand you, or do you justice. This is a recollection which ought to make me forgive every one sooner than myself.

That's the problem with lying. You can never remember what you've said.

But she could only remember that it was good, not how it felt.

eidetic memory. What else any of it meant to

After a while, the story becomes the truth because no one actually remembers how things really happened.

Nothing is ever forgotten.

Memory is the fourth landscape.

Most of what happens to us goes unremembered. The events of our life are like photographic negatives. The few that make it into the developing solution and become photographs are what we call our memories.

Most of what happens to us goes unremembered. The events of our lives are like photographic negatives. The few that make it into the developing solution and become photographs are what we call our memories.

Don't be fooled. Charlie remembers things exactly the way he wants to remember them. I suppose we all do...And then we spend the rest of our lives basing the way we think about our families on what we THOUGHT happened--instead of what really did.

Memory is the greatest of artists, and effaces from your mind what is unnecessary.

I have an unusual hobby: I collect pictures of people I don't know. It started when I was a kid growing up in South Florida, the land of junk stores, garage sales, and flea markets, as a kind of coping mechanism.

I have a two-story house and a bad memory, so I'm up and down those stairs all the time. That's my exercise.

The older you get, the more 'mindfulness' becomes about trying to remember why you came upstairs.

Memories are fallible and a timer can save a lot of hard work from going out of the window

Trying to forget really doesn't work. In fact, it's pretty much the same as remembering. But I tried to forget anyway, and to ignore the fact that I was remembering you all the time.

I want to question the images that are in our memory. There is always a double level in my work; what you see is true and at the same time not true.

For some reason or another, 'Richard Diamond, Private Eye,' still sticks out in my mind. I don't think I particularly liked that show, but for some reason, he sticks in my mind.

There is nothing like an odor to stir memories.

You can keep the things of bronze and stone and give me one man to remember me just once a year.

But I can remember very clearly the session for My Generation. I can remember very clearly You Really Got Me and Wont Get Fooled Again, and lots of Stones stuff.

Everywhere I go, someone stops me and says, 'Oh, you're that guy from 'Terminator 2.'' So, it's something that has, you know, been around me since the movie came out.

My memory stops at 14.

All of us roughly know what memory is. I mean, memory is sort of the storage of the past. It's the storage of our personal experiences. It's a very big deal.